Background
Chambers, Henry Edward was born on March 28, 1860 in New Orleans. Son of Joseph A. and Maria (Charles) Chambers.
Chambers, Henry Edward was born on March 28, 1860 in New Orleans. Son of Joseph A. and Maria (Charles) Chambers.
Education public and private schools. Post-graduate Tulane University, 1890-1892. Fellow Johns Hopkins, 1893-1894.
Taught in rural schools, Louisiana, 1877-1881. Principal Mineral Springs (Arkansas) High School, 1881-1882. President Monticello Male and Female College, 1882-1883.
Principal Monticello High School, 1883-1884. Superintendent schools, Beaumont, Texas, 1884-1885. Principal McDonough School, New Orleans, 1885-1887.
Professor science, New Orleans Boys’ High School, 1887-1890. Assistant professor science, Tulane University, 1890-1893. Principal Monroe (Louisiana) High School, 1894-1896.
Professor of English, 1896-1901. English and elocution, 1902-1905, New Orleans Boys’ High School. In literature work, since 1905.
Editor Progressive Teacher, 1885-1889. Founder and editor, 1893-1894, and business manager, 1907-1908, Louisiana School Review. Organized, 1893, first superintendent, director 10 years, vice president, 1897, president, 1902, Louisiana State Chautauqua.
President department secondary education National Education Association, 1890. Louisiana State Teachers’ Institute conductor and training teacher Louisiana State Normal School, 1901-1902. Founder and president The Chambers Agency, Inc., 1905-1912.
Vice president La Valliere Company, since 1914. Author: Constitutional History of Hawaii, 1896. West Florida (History Cartography), 1898.
Mississippi Valley Beginnings, 1922. Subjectivity of Certain Economic Concepts, 1924. History of Louisiana, State and People (3 vols.), 1925.
Home: New Orleans, La.
Married Ellen White Taylor, December 27, 1883. Children: John Taylor, Henry Edward.